Many of Trump’s voters will be surprised when they discover that their prescription drug costs have skyrocketed.
“Trump’s Make Drug Prices High Again EO rescinded the BIden-Harris order to lower drug costs - to cap the co-payment for generic medications at $2 for Medicare beneficiaries.”
-S Kennedy
#Medicare #Medicaid #Trump #Health #PrescriptionDrugs #USPol
A few years ago, some Texas Doctors for America colleagues and I were critical about a physician who was spreading misinformation about hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness against COVID: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2020/12/06/letters-to-the-editor-doctors-for-america-offers-advice-the-us-election-system-klyde-warren-park-fountain-supreme-court-decision-on-church-attendance/
Fast forward to present day. Guess who lost his board certification? https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/113624
#healthcare #covid #hydroxychloroquine #PrescriptionDrugs #misinformation #disinformation #texas #physicians #boards #BoardCertification
"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday released its second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), saying the major industry middlemen generate billions in revenue through vertical integration, industry dominance and marking up the prices of specialty drugs."
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5085119-ftc-report-pharmacy-benefit-managers/
What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up #drugprices for everyone https://theconversation.com/what-are-pharmacy-benefit-managers-a-health-economist-explains-how-lack-of-competition-drives-up-drug-prices-for-everyone-236772
#healthinsurance #prescriptiondrugs #healthcare
"Aid Access, one of the largest suppliers of abortion pills, reported receiving 10,000 requests for the medication in the 24 hours after the election was called for the Republican nominee early Wednesday — roughly 17 times the 600 that the organization typically gets in a day."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/11/abortion-pill-contraception-trump-term/
#healthcare #ReproductiveJustice #pregnancy #abortion #drugs #PrescriptionDrugs #sterilization
"I'm asking for your vote. because as President I will get up every day and fight for the American people."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6bv6jYEVAs
This is it folks. This is our shot to get it right.
Please vote for #KamalaHarris ....
For our future, for women, for healthcare, for our seniors, for freedom and for democracy.
#Election2024 #USElection #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz #KamalaHarris #Scotus #RoeYourVote #Abortion #Healthcare #PrescriptionDrugs #Groceries #Housing
A popular prescription drug that is used to treat type 2 diabetes or to manage weight in adults seems to be both safe and effective for weight loss in children — at least in the short term, according to new results. A phase 3 clinical trial among 82 participants has now provided initial results that liraglutide, combined with other lifestyle interventions, is both safe and effective as a weight loss drug for children as young as six years old. That’s not at all controversial, is it? @ScienceAlert has more: https://flip.it/o3JyQG
#Science #Health #Medicine #PrescriptionDrugs #Obesity #WeightLoss #Children
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"The Affordable Care Act is back under attack. Not as in the repeal-and-replace debates of yore, but in a fresher take from Republican lawmakers who say key parts of the ACA cost taxpayers too much and provide incentive for fraud."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/affordable-care-act-aca-obamacare-new-gop-republican-attacks/
#healthcare #ACA #Obamacare #insurance #Medicare #Medicaid #PrescriptionDrugs #CostsOfCare
Via #BidenHarrisHQ
#BernieSanders: Let me b clear as 2 Y I support President #JoeBiden: strongest, most #progressive prez in my lifetime; 1st prez in US history 2 stand w/ #workers on #PicketLine; lowered cost of #PrescriptionDrugs; rebuilding #infrastructure; more $$ in2 combating #ClimateChange than any point in #history of this country. 5M Americans have #StudentDebt relief; The ideas..for 1st 100 days if reelected,..will resonate w/ #MiddleClass in this country
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"Nearly half of all Americans struggle to afford access to quality health care and prescription medications.
This is the warning of the latest report from the Healthcare Affordability Index, which tracks how many in the U.S. have been forced to avoid medical care or haven't been able to fill their prescriptions in the last three months—and how many would struggle to pay for care if it was needed."
https://www.newsweek.com/us-healthcare-unaffordable-americans-1925972
